Remembering 30 years of Biennale! Ancona 2013

Mediterranea 16 has tried to rewrite, in a radical way, the nature of the Biennale itself. The curators collective (Charlotte Bank, Alessandro Castiglioni, Nadira Laggoune, Delphine Leccas, Slobodne Veze/Loose Associations, Marco Trulli and Claudio Zecchi) has worked with a coherent and common vision and has tackled a socio-political issue: a reflection on the independence of the educational and informational process for young artists in the field of the different information regimes. The work, deeply experimental, didn’t leave anything untried in terms of analysis and research of itself, in the attempt to understand the contemporary cultural scene and the geopolitical specificity in which we are operating. The Biennale in Ancona, for which I’m very proud, maybe it was not fully understood for one simple reason: it tried, for the first time, to innovate the imagine of the Biennale, that seems sometimes obsolete. For the future, I wish the Biennale to continue following this path: rethinking its format and developing autonomous research path, independents and, why not, even resilient.

The participation in the Biennale of Ancona in 2013 was a very important experience for our theatre group.
We met young artists/activists from all over the world, with so many different backgrounds and techniques and we all had the chance to share ideas and our vision of art. This was extremely valuable and inspiring. After the Biennale, we had the opportunity to create some new projects and perform them across Europe.

mETIC theatre groupMaria Trialoni, Yorgos Tsamis, Artists

The Biennale of Ancona 2013, was a very important landing point for my artistic career. Having in mind that the work which I was presented with, helped me not just find new opportunities to meet great minds and people, but also opened other departing points for me.

Making the whole journey work as a terminal of connecting things flying to other things…